A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.

An ongoing series presenting rare films from the ICA Archive, screening on original 35mm and 16mm prints.

A continuing series of in-depth retrospectives exploring the work of cinema's great artists, both past and present.

The endlessly blurred and tangled lines of reality and fiction, cinema and theatre, and art and life form the heart of Jacques Rivette’s cinema. Throughout his extensive body of work the French filmmaker continually eschews and reformulates the traditional patterns of narrative cinema and instead embraces mystery, conspiracy, and the inexplicable.

Despite its somewhat beleaguered production and a less than rapturous reception from critics upon its release, Jacques Rivette's final film of the 1970s is a perfect distillation of the paranoia, conspiracy and mystery that defined much of his work during the previous two decades. 

A selection of work by influential French documentarian Sylvain George, the first of its kind in the UK.

In transit through the city of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, Malik and his friends, minors of Moroccan origin, try to reach Europe. Day after night, they wander the city in all directions, exploring its most burning pasts and presents.

In Angola, 1974, as independence nears, a girl and a group of Portuguese soldiers confront love, death, and justice amid war. 

The first full retrospective of the great Polish director Wojciech Jerzy Has, is presented in partnership with KINOTEKA and the BFI.

A selection of three short films, No Border, N’entre pas sans violence and Nocturne Blanc-Chasseur, made between 2007 and 2015 on mini-DV and Super 8, focused on the experiences of migrants in Paris.

Felicja hides actor Wiktor from persecution in her flat, but his selfishness strains their relationship, damaging her life and career.

Tadeusz obsessively searches for his missing son, using conflicting scraps of conflicting information gleaned from possibly unreliable witnesses, but his quest alienates him from family and reality.

The city of Paris becomes a labyrinthine board game, as a chance encounter between a claustrophobic ex-con (Bulle Ogier) and a leather-clad young woman (Pascale Ogier) quickly embroils them both in a sinister underworld conspiracy.

Puerta del Sol, Madrid. A document of the 15M movement, one of the largest movements of class struggle of this century, functioning as an experimental newsreel. 

Themes of love and migration play out in the fire and frenzy of a New York kitchen in Alonso Ruizpalacios' adaptation of Arnold Wesker's stage play.

An exploration of a world shaped by neurodiverse perspectives, capturing diverse subjects navigating environments both challenging and comforting. Characters, some concealing their autism, others thriving in their communities, share a common goal: finding a space free from societal norms.

A tense and human musical about a family that survived the end of the world, from the director of The Act of Killing.

Jérémie returns to his hometown for his former boss's funeral. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbour, and a strange priest complicate his visit. 

In rural Northern India, recently widowed Santosh reluctantly takes the place of her murdered police constable husband in this complex thriller.

For two years, filmmakers Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau followed a militant activist community of squatters, anarchists, farmers in France. Composed of forty-one long takes, the film quietly assembles an immersive portrait of the movement and those involved alongside their activism.

When artist Maggie breaks her femur, her husband Joel, a famous photographer, becomes her caregiver. The hard truths of life together provoke an attempt to find a shared peace while there's time.

James Baldwin left New York behind for Paris in November 1948. Filmmaker Yashaddai Owens paints an impressionistic portrait of these early days on rich 16mm black-and-white, capturing a transformative moment in the life of a young artist.

The latest film from Hong Sangsoo reunites Kim Minhee and Kwon Haehyo in an autumnal tale of desire, self-expression and the inescapable nature of the past.

Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin star as actresses recruited by an enigmatic playwright (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) to star in a new work, but as rehearsals begin in his grand mansion, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. A beguiling and haunting exploration of the mysteries of love and art.

Based on short story by Chekhov, Wojciech Has’ first film after a decade's pause explores an elderly professor’s existential musings and personal frustrations.

A revelatory inside-look at John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, from Academy Award-winner Kevin Macdonald.

18 year-old Totone spends his time drinking and partying in the Jura region of France, until reality catches up to him, and he must find a way to make a living to care for his 7 year-old sister.

Assembled from footage shot over a span of more than twenty years, Jia Zhangke crafts a boundless story of enduring but fragile love, anchored by the eternally captivating presence of Zhao Tao. The screening on 11 April is followed by a conversation between Tony Rayns and Simon Field.

A screening of Wojciech Has’ eleven short films, made between 1947-1955.

Closing out a landmark cycle of noir's that began with Laura, Otto Preminger's tale of an ambulance driver drawn into the orbit of a wealthy young woman is one of the filmmakers most enigmatic works. In his essay L'essentiel, Rivette argued that the film was a skeleton key for understanding Preminger's work at large and his belief in mise en scène.

A cult classic, this adaptation of Jan Potocki’s novel blends Napoleonic and Inquisition-era stories with supernatural twists, anchored by a bewildered-looking Zbigniew Cybulski.

Brutal and despairing, Jacques Rivette's radical reinterpretation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights transposes its tale of love and revenge from the English countryside to a Chateau in 1930s France.

Structured in 14 episodes (screening over three consecutive days), exergue – on documenta 14 offers a look behind the scenes of the institutional contemporary art world. Presented in partnership with Open City Documentary Festival.

To coincide with the screening of exergue - on documenta 14, Adam Szymczyk, artistic director of documenta 14, will be present in-person for an in-depth conversation, hosted by Chris McCormack. Co-presented with Open City Documentary Festival and Art Monthly.

A celebration of the extraordinary life of Irish writer Edna O'Brien.

The fourth screening in the Late Tapes series, an exploration of fetishistic desire, curated by Content Warning in collaboration with the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive.

The festival closes with a special musical interpretation of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bester Quartet

A cross-disciplinary festival that showcases boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema, live arts, and moving image work from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities.

A burglar and the owner of a house he attempts to rob journey across Vietnam to the homeowner’s wife’s grave where he wishes to join her. 

A satirical look at the frenzied professional and romantic lives of the staff of a daytime TV show. Screening on a 16mm print from the ICA archive

Yeong-gyeong and Su-hwan meet at a wedding party. He carries her home after she passes out drunk. Kang Mi-ja's Spring Night is a stark and graceful depiction of a doomed kinship. 

Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, Iva Radivojević’s evocative film investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. Followed by an in-person Q&A with filmmaker Iva Radivojević.

Commissioned to create a documentary about Argentine art collective Mondongo, filmmaker
Mariano Llinás crafts an experimental portrait of friendship, failure and self-destruction.

An essayistic exploration into the lasting ecological consequences of Belgium’s colonial rule in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.